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Flint Center for Educational Excellence reports $3.6M in programming, expanded after‑school reach and collaboration with district
Summary
Flint Center President Janelle Jamieson briefed the board on two years of partnership work — including after‑school enrollment, success mentoring outcomes and a role in the Brownell neighborhood transformation and state consolidation funding effort.
Janelle Jamieson, president and CEO of the Flint Center for Educational Excellence, told the Flint School District board the Center now serves all 10 Flint school sites with community education and after‑school programming under a memorandum of understanding with the district.
Jamieson said the Center employs 52 full‑time and part‑time staff at district sites — “41 of them are full time, and 11 of them are part time” — and that the organization’s direct programming costs for Thrive After School and community education are about $3,600,000 per year.
Jamieson described a set of interventions the Center runs with the district. Success mentoring pairs students identified as at risk for chronic absenteeism with a mentor for two 20‑minute sessions a week; Jamieson said “225 students from the district this year have been engaged in success mentoring.” She described data that showed students in success mentoring improved attendance rates and that students participating in Thrive After School avoided a mid‑year “dip” in reading and math performance and in many cases “the students participating in after school are the kids who need it” and “participation in after school actually takes the kids from behind.”
Jamieson also described the Network for School Excellence, a teacher‑led improvement network that the Center said involves 64 teachers across Genesee County with 100 percent of participating teachers completing instructional trials and 75 percent reporting improvements in instructional practice. She connected that work to Brownell Homes neighborhood engagement and to the district’s application for the state School Infrastructure Consolidation Fund, saying the Center and philanthropic partners helped secure matching commitments and legislative support and that an announcement was expected in May.
Board members asked detailed questions about operations. Trustee Rutherford praised the Center’s “holistic whole child approach.” Vice President McIntyre asked about age bands, licensing and how the Center’s success coaches operate in middle and high school settings; Jamieson said after‑school programs must follow Michigan childcare regulations for younger students and adapt programming for older students, and she described compensation opportunities for certified teachers who lead after‑school enrichment.
The board also moved a separate academic item related to an out‑of‑school proposal: Resolution 25.1, authorization to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools for a summer school pilot at one Flint site, was moved to the regular board meeting on March 26 and the committee voted 6–0 to advance the item for adoption.
